Google Apps for Education MUST be the most significant thing that has happened to education in years! Google's completely FREE, beautifully integrated, and easy to use suite of tools naturally infuses itself into a classroom curriculum as a learning tool second to none. It follows the philosophy that technology should be seamlessly integrated, effortless, and a non-issue. If technology is invisible, it's doing its job...helping students learn, helping teachers teach, and creating opportunities for growth and development. Google Apps for Education DOES that!

WHOCan & Should Use Google Apps for Education?

Educators & Students!

Google Apps for Education is FREE.The core offering of Google Apps is entirely free for educational institutions. This includes user accounts for future incoming students. NO HIDDEN COSTS!

Google was founded by a research project at Stanford University, and this is just one way that they choose to give back to the educational community.

WHATis Google Apps for Education?(GAFE)

Hosted solution* for email, calendar, and chat with integrated communication and collaboration

Online suite of applications/programs that are comparable to Microsoft’s Office Suite--with no need to install!

Other applications are integrated for tasks such as website development, blogging, and more.

Can be used with any device

Any browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox)

Any operating system (iOS, Linux, Windows, Chrome OS, etc.)

Strong security, reliability, encryption, authentication, privacy

NO Software to install and maintain (updates done automatically!)

WHERECan Google Apps for Education Be Used?

Access all of the services including documents anywhere with an internet connection

school

home

public place

any device: computer, smart phone, or tablet

No need for flash drives or remote access to network resources

Compatibility: No Version issues:

Students or staff no longer have to struggle with doing work at home or outside the school building and then having conversion issue from one application to another

WHENCan & ShouldGoogle Apps for Education Be Used?

Today! Tomorrow! And Always!

24-7 access to files with an internet connection

Offline files

WHY?

Easy to understand user interface for students and staff

SEAMLESS integration of applications (they all easily work together!)

STRONG Collaboration potential for students and staff

Live, web-based documents that are stored in the cloud and can be accessed anywhere (with an internet connection) by multiple users at once

Complete revision history with the option to revert to a previous version of a document at any time

Shared Calendars to manage tasks and meetings

Student Learning:

Research

Data collection

Data analysis

Integration of Forms & Sheets

School Use:

Information Collection

surveys

questionnaires

registration forms

Teacher Use:

Online Quiz & Test Creation

Self-graded options available also

Reduces the school’s environmental footprint via:

Online Documents

Increased, streamlined electronic communication vs. paper

Shared Calendars

HOWCan Google Apps for EducationBe Used?

Google Docs

Powerful word processor

Collaborative approach to creating and sharing documents

LIVE web-based documents that more than one user can access and edit simultaneously

No more email attachments

One copy of each file

Full revision history

Built-in research feature

Upload existing Microsoft Word documents & convert

Export to common formats: Word, PDF, txt.etc

Click on the link below for tutorials &more about student and teacher use of Google Docs